The Poet Friedrich Hölderlin

Sketch of "mad poet" Hölderlin   “Night, the astonishing, there, the stranger to all that is human, Over the mountain-tops mournful and gleaming draws on.” — Friedrich Hölderlin, from Bread and Wine   Dear Friends, At our meeting on February 8, we spent the...

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Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of “Novalis”

John the Baptist   Dear Friends, This is Lecture One and Lecture Two of a lecture series that I gave for friends and members of the Anthroposophical Society of America in April 2024. I revised these lectures for distribution to a wider public, especially for the...

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Poetry Night / October 12, 2024

"Planning Ahead" Photo by Elliot Tripp     October 14, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night at which friends and members of the Section read original poetry. Poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems, if there is...

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Introduction to Novalis

Artwork: "Blue Flower 1" by Marion Donehower     A (very) Brief Introduction  To the Poet Hailed Repeatedly by Rudolf Steiner As the "Herald of Anthroposophy"     Novalis is the only true poet of the Romantic school. In him alone the whole soul of...

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